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by _benedict 2y ago
But the point of the fine in this case is clearly not restitution, but disincentive. Justice in this case is ensuring everyone is equally incentivised to follow a law that society thinks everyone should follow. If the goal were only to ascr
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by _benedict 2y ago
[1] is a press release from the original result that has been developed, and specifically refers to replacing lead with tin, with the purported reason to produce a lead-free cell for easier commercialisation (due to the concerns over lead).
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by _benedict 2y ago
These apparently use tin instead of lead. https://www.internationaltin.org/oxford-pv-moving-toward-nex...
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by _benedict 2y ago
“Git” is a pejorative. The GP was suggesting that this microbe deserved being called a “git” for its deleterious effects.
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by _benedict 2y ago
The ASF requires a CLA for all regular contributors or large contributions, so I don’t think this is a particularly good barometer.
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by _benedict 2y ago
The linked article doesn’t discuss causal consistency or MongoDB.
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by _benedict 3y ago
Garbage collectors are really nice for concurrent data structures, making lock-free algorithms very practical. Java's skip list does not require any locks for write, and requires essentially no synchronisation at all for reads (just su
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by _benedict 3y ago
That’s not true. There’s basically no employment protections in the UK for your first two years of employment. There are pretty good norms in the UK including finance about this, but your statutory protections are pretty weak even after t
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by _benedict 3y ago
Those websites usually include (or at least offer) professional photography, and some also offer various levels of agent assistance for viewings, negotiations etc. an a la carte offering of sorts. A for sale sign is often included as it’s f
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by _benedict 3y ago
Cassandra has a deterministic testing framework in this vein that will support Loom before too long. Loom is more of an efficiency enhancement, however, permitting you to run a simulation with a single operating system thread, avoiding the
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by _benedict 3y ago
Leaderless protocols exist in the literature (EPaxos, Caesar, Tempo, ...). These systems usually have a "leader" per transaction, but the leader role is uncontested in normal operation, as it is self-declared by the coordinator of
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by _benedict 3y ago
https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-init... Looks like Tesla is only 33% worse than the industry average.
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by _benedict 3y ago
It’s not possible to read a new value at quorum and to then later read the old value at quorum in Cassandra. This is enforced by “read repair” that ensures the quorum agrees on the reply, by propagating the newer values if they are missing
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by _benedict 3y ago
There’s a general problem with low friction transactions being used to exploit people with diminished capacity, particularly when intermediaries are involved (another common one in UK is signing them up for multiple phone contracts) and the
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by _benedict 3y ago
They will be partitioned by a different key. You may in fact have to touch two extra quorums - one to delete the old entry and one to insert the new entry. This depends on the specifics of how your database works, of course. I’m not sure th
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by _benedict 4y ago
Or that their career was better served by undermining those within the party that were less aligned with them, to open up more posts in future for themselves and ensure positions of authority were staffed with those most likely to retain th
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by _benedict 4y ago
Ioannidis published very suspect studies with misleading design and motivated reasoning during the pandemic. His credibility is low on this topic.
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by _benedict 4y ago
The original comment referenced the U.K., where it is definitely not required, but is becoming more common. I am surprised at the idea that MVHRs have been required anywhere for as much as 20 years.
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by _benedict 4y ago
“Standard” is a bit strong, maybe? I think the majority of new homes still use trickle ventilation because it’s much cheaper, and not many homes have them retrofitted? They are certainly common, but I think far from standard.
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by _benedict 4y ago
Cassandra isn't columnar, it's row-oriented. The original authors coined a new term "column family" which is just a nonsense (and confusing) term, meant to describe its original relatively unstructured API, which has unf
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by _benedict 4y ago
No, you brought up Cheerios, and I brought up a counterexample to your claim that such invented terms occupy some special status where they don’t or shouldn’t change meaning. I then mentioned loss of trademark protection to further evidence
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by _benedict 4y ago
Open source isn’t trademarked, and probably isn’t possible to trademark. So trademark status isn’t relevant here, only the change in usage.
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by _benedict 4y ago
That’s another assumption. It might be widely accepted within your circle, but most people using the word I would bet don’t even know it exists. So for them it isn’t an authority. A dictionary might be. I certainly do not recognise any ch
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by _benedict 4y ago
Official? In what sense?
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by _benedict 4y ago
I don’t see anything there on the use of the term open source, just lots of open source related disputes?
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by _benedict 4y ago
That’s an empirical claim, and I’m not sure what you’re basing it on? There’s literal dictionaries that disagree with you, so plenty of credibility to the alternative meanings.
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by _benedict 4y ago
Firstly, the Oxford English Dictionary uses a different definition, as does Wikipedia. It’s far from clear why we would prefer OSD, and by these other definitions you’re the one using the word incorrectly. Secondly, good luck convincing eve
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by _benedict 4y ago
I disagree that everyone broadly understands the same thing as you from the phrase “open source”
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by _benedict 4y ago
But nobody’s doing that? I think a bunch of people basically never agreed with you on the definition, it just never mattered much as the distinction didn’t matter yet. Most people don’t think much about how they use words, they just use the
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by _benedict 4y ago
I’m a member of the open source community, so “the” community isn’t telling them anything. But, no, I’ve quite clearly stated you can argue they shouldn’t use that definition. But you cannot credibly say that their usage is wrong if the

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